GERMANY will not be "rising any big voices" during the Brexit negotiations as Chancellor Angela Merkel continues to struggle to form a stable government, according to economist Maria Demertzis.

Mrs Merkel's inability to form a coalition government will keep Germany from playing a major role in the Brexit negotiations.

Ms Demertzis, the Bruegel think tank deputy director said: "With Germany, it would have been nice if we had a stable government that can engage more in these negotiations.

"What I expect now from Germany is a lot more passive, in terms of the Brexit talks. I don’t think they will be raising any big voices in any of these meetings."

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Angela Merkel will not play a major role in Brexit talks

Speaking to BBC News, Ms Demertzis said the current political crisis will put Germany on equal footing with other EU member states, giving full control of the negotiations to the EU Commission.

She continued: "Whatever the Commission puts forward I think Germany, like all other countries, will be following closely."

Chancellor Merkel saw coalition talks collapse after the conservative FDP party left the negotiating table because of the lack of "common vision" with Mrs Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party and the Greens.

The failure to reach a deal has exposed Mrs Merkel's political weakness and raised concerns among European Union's members over the future of the bloc's strongest economy.

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New polling shows 45 per cent of Germans wants the chance to vote again after talks for a so-called Jamaica coalition – thus nicknamed because of the parties' traditional colours resembling those of the Caribbean nation – suddenly collapsed.

The survey, by polling agency Forsa, showed 24 per cent support a minority government, likely to consist of the CDU and the Greens.

It was already at a low point after bruising elections saw the CDU lose votes to the anti-immigration Alternative for Germany.

But now the loss of confidence in Mrs Merkel has spread to her own party as the head of her party’s Dusseldorf youth wing, the Junge Union, has now called for Mrs Merkel to step down as CDU chairwoman after the collapse of coalition talks.

The local Junge Union board agreed Mrs Merkel should not run for Chancellor in new elections after the party achieved one of the worst results since its formation in 1949.